The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-26

A colored man, Robert Mathews, who
was married at Key West Thursday night,
got into row, which caused him to have
to spend the night in jail
DR.. w. A. Spence has been appointed act
ing assistant surgeon of tho United States
Marine Hospital service at jacksonville,
vice DR.. j. d. Mitchell, removed.
At Seville on Wednesday thunderbolt
struck and shattered three large pines near
Mr. Warnock's residence, and the shock
came near prostrating Mrs. Rosie
A riot took place at Key West Thurs
day night, near the cemetery, and the po-
lice had to interfere. The Marshal was
pretty roughly handled by parties resisting
arrest.
Charles B Pendleton, editor of the Key
West Equator, charged Manuel EScassi, a
prominent Cuban, with attempting to as
sassinate him. A jury trial resulted in an
acquittal
The schooner burned with the Crigler
mill, at Point Washington, last Monday,
was the Laura, owned by G. w. Crawford:
The vessel was valued at about 1900, and
was not insured
Gen. Edward Hopkins, Collector of Gus
toms, Jacksonville, is at Washington visit
ing the various divisions of the Treasury
Department, in the interest of the customs
service at that port
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railroad company have now the plans Tor
a pretty little steamer 40 feet long, which
will be built Immediately to carry the mail
from Melbourne to Jupiter.
few days ago some of the prisoners con-
fined in Sumter county Jail made an at
tempt to escape, but was foiled i'll their eff
forts by the sudden appearance OF Sheriff
Chapman and Deputy Howell,
tha la pior
Notwithstanding bad transportation facili-
ties, are all working more or less their full
force. Wol1's factory is closed, B. Alfonso
az Co have stopped temporarily, and
Reynolds q Co. are not working now.
H. NJ. Flagler, who returned TO st. Au-
gustine Saturday, is at present the guest of
Mayor Anderson. His visit at this season
OF the year is to look after his interests and
to oversee the progress which is being made
toward the completion of his structure.
Seniors Rivero and Delgado have retired
from the editorship of the Spanish depart
ment of FL Ecuador, of Key West, their
connection with which, after a recent at
tack of its English editor upon the charac-
ter of Hon Manuel NJ. EscaSsi, was consid-
cred impossible.
At the annual election of officers of the
Lake Parker Telegraph Company, c. b.
Stephenson of LalSelandwas elected Presi-
dent against H. c., Sloan, who has SO long
and faithfully served i'll that capacity Mr..
Sloan still retains large share of the stock
of the company
Four prisoners are lodged in the county
Jail at Milton. One for murder, one for an
assault with intent to murder, one for
larceny, and one for carrying concealed
weapons, The first and last are from Wal
ton county, there being no place of safety
for them there.
The steamer Lena c., intended to ply the
Choctawhatchie river, arrived at Pensacola
from the Conecuh Thursday. She was in
Spected to-day by MeSSrS. Blakeslee and
0'Brien, United States Inspectors of Hulls
and Boilers, and proceeded to the scene of
her future operations.
Col Jim Harris has just shipped 1000
orange trees from Cltra to Panasotfkee to
be set out on his fine hummOck place on the
famous Panasoffkee Lake, in Sumter county.
Counting fifty trees to the acre. this is a
sufficient number to plant forty acres, and
is only a beginning of the improvements
Mr.. Harris intends making.
An untenanted house belonging to Mrs.
Burgoyne, situated near Muscogee wharf,
at Pensacola, caught fire and was totally de-
stroyed Saturday. The house had been set
on fire three or four times in the past week,
it is said, and Saturday s fire is plainly the
successful work of an incendiary. The loss
amounts TO about $500 Insured.
On Saturday night a colored man en-
ployed by p. Y. Jones, went to Lakeland
and hitched his two mules in front of Mr..
Bouacker's store. On going back in a few
minutes to where he had hitched the mules,
be discovered that they were gone. Next
morning the mules were found on the
streets, with The saddles and brides literally
cut to pieces. No cause can be assigned for
it.
Two of the four beacons to be built on
the bay at Warrington have been COM
pleted. They are about thirty or forty feet
high. Tuesday, while work was going on,
the boss and "A negro got into difficulty,
and the negro struck tho white man on the
head with a piece of wood, but with no very
serious effect other than stunning him for a
short time. As soon as the negro struck
him, he, the negro, fled.
The records of the Patent Office show that
in the way of inventions Florida takes a
leading place among the Southern States
As is well known, the South has been last,
if not least, in the originating of mechanical
designs, but of late there has been a noticea-
BILE Improvement in this respect During
the past year the number of patents issued
to citizens of Florida was forty-one, which
is an average of one for every 6,573 of pop
ulation.
FEEDER, who was arrested at Orlando
some two weeks ago for gambling and fined
$50, and who claims TO be Deputy United
States Marshal, but is not able to produce
any credentials, is now mixed up in still
more disgraceful affair. II seems that some
time since he rented a room for woman
whom he claimed was his sister, but as he has
steadily refused to pay the rent she has
been turned into the street without money
or friends.
The southbound freight train on the Flor
ida Railway and Navigation railway ran
into a hand car one mile south of Leesburg
Sunday night, and killed one white section
hand named Parrier, and dangerously in
jured Section Foreman Fail. 1t was on a
curve, and the engineer did not see the car
in time to stop. The body of Parrier and
the injured man were brought back to
Leesburg. The body was turned over to
the authorities, and Fail was placed under
a doctors care
Six years ago there was not a single house
whore ti,p upui.isbipcr pitv of Sanford now